[R] confidence intervals around p-values

2010-09-09 Thread Fernando Marmolejo Ramos
Dear all I wonder if anyone has heard of confidence intervals around p-values... Any pointer would be highly appreciated. Best Fer __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] confidence intervals around p-values

2010-09-09 Thread Ben Bolker
Fernando Marmolejo Ramos fernando.marmolejoramos at adelaide.edu.au writes: Dear all I wonder if anyone has heard of confidence intervals around p-values... Any pointer would be highly appreciated. No, and my reflex is that it seems like a bad idea. If you are using p-values as an

Re: [R] confidence intervals around p-values

2010-09-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 09/09/2010 6:44 AM, Fernando Marmolejo Ramos wrote: Dear all I wonder if anyone has heard of confidence intervals around p-values... That doesn't really make sense. p-values are statistics, not parameters. You would compute a confidence interval around a population mean because that's

Re: [R] confidence intervals around p-values

2010-09-09 Thread Ted Harding
On 09-Sep-10 13:21:07, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 09/09/2010 6:44 AM, Fernando Marmolejo Ramos wrote: Dear all I wonder if anyone has heard of confidence intervals around p-values... That doesn't really make sense. p-values are statistics, not parameters. You would compute a confidence

Re: [R] confidence intervals around p-values

2010-09-09 Thread Greg Snow
-help-boun...@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Ted Harding Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 8:25 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Fernando Marmolejo Ramos Subject: Re: [R] confidence intervals around p-values On 09-Sep-10 13:21:07, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 09/09/2010 6:44 AM, Fernando

Re: [R] confidence intervals around p-values

2010-09-09 Thread JLucke
...@manchester.ac.uk ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk, r-help@r-project.org r-help@r-project.org cc Fernando Marmolejo Ramos fernando.marmolejora...@adelaide.edu.au Subject Re: [R] confidence intervals around p-values One other case where a confidence interval on a p-value may make sense